ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heterosexuality
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One end is elite families which include immigrant professional. The other end includes poorer women and men who provide benefits for the other end of people ex. maids, sex workers etc: ex. American hiring filipino maids and them sending their money back home for their kids. Internet technology plays a key role in the process of commodification. You can easily access people around the world in a short amount of time. Moms working far from home are able to stay in contact with their families: these boundaries between market and domestic are unclear and are socially constructed. It is that no resources are being exchange, or is it that those things are considered a resource etc. Ex. marriage is not considered commodified: the fact that you can separate the value from the gift, it does not understand how complex social relations are.